Dairy unity
OPINION: A last-minute compromise ensured that the election of the new Federated Farmers national dairy chair wasn't a repeat of…
Twelve Indonesian farmers chosen as part of a Fonterra scholarship programme in Indonesia visited the cooperative's Te Rapa manufacturing site on Wednesday on the final leg of their 10-week training course in New Zealand.
Singaporean Simon Israel is a new director at Fonterra, following the retirement of Ralph Waters.
SOUTH AUCKLAND dairy farmer Murray Shaw is used to hosting VIPs on his 500-cow farm. In 2005 he hosted then Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.
THE MAN who has spearheaded DairyNZ policy and advocacy development for four and a half years is to be New Zealand’s next High Commissioner in Canada.
UMBRELLAS AND wet weather gear were in order for farmers attending the organic dairying conference at Woodville last week.
OFF-PEAK MILK production doesn’t necessarily mean intensive feeding, says a new study from Dairy Australia.
WHILE THE drought is terribly painful to many dairy farmers – essentially it’s ruined a bumper season – it has brought to the fore some issues worth considering.
OVER THE last two weeks the Prime Minister and I have led a 25-strong business delegation on a trade mission through Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil.
DairyNZ is reminding dairy farmers to prepare for new employees as the new season nears.
Eighteen months after announcing plans to radically scale back organic milk contracts, Federated Farmers is cautiously optimistic about Fonterra's announcement it is renewing supply contracts for organic dairy farmers in the lower and central North Island.
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The Feilding cattle yards were inundated on Friday as farmers must be thinking now is the the time to offload stock.
30,000 store lambs last week and just under 34,000 today was just too much for the market to handle and prices came back with a thump today.
Farmgate prices lifted in the North Island last week with procurement competition heating up as the kill continues to fall.
The North Island weekly lamb kill dropped 50% in the space of two week as the availability of killable lambs plummets.
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